Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 14:14:41 -0500
From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>
Cc: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>,
	Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>,
	pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postgres restart in the middle of exclusive backup and the
 presence of backup_label file
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Greetings,

* Chapman Flack (chap@anastigmatix.net) wrote:
> On 03/01/22 13:22, David Steele wrote:
> > I think people are going to complain no matter what. If scripts are bei=
ng
> > maintained changing the name is not a big deal (though moving from excl=
usive
> > to non-exclusive may be). If they aren't being maintained then they'll =
just
> > blow up a few versions down the road when we remove the compatibility
> > functions.
>=20
> I might have already said enough in the message that crossed with this,
> but I think what I'm saying is there's a less-binary distinction between
> scripts that are/aren't "being maintained".
>=20
> There can't really be many teams out there thinking "we'll just ignore
> these scripts forever, and nothing bad will happen." They all know they'll
> have to do stuff sometimes. But it matters how we allow them to schedule =
it.

We only make these changes between major versions.  That's as much as we
should be required to provide.

Further, we seriously changed around how restores work a few versions
back and there was rather little complaining.

Thanks,

Stephen

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